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Quantity Surveyor

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Posted By: Hays Construction and Property
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Date Posted: 17th Jul 2008
Salary: upto £35k
Location: Wolverhampton
Reference Code: 1310703
Views Since Posting: 90
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This client is a FTSE 250 company and a leading infrastructure, building and business services organisation with an order book worth over £9bn and a turnover of £4 billion. Our 50000 people are working in areas vital to society, designing, building, and maintaining new environments for business and leisure, and safer, more reliable transport networks. Together with our clients in health, education, commercial property, local and national government, transport and defence, we are finding innovative, sustainable ways to improve the quality of life for everyone. BUSINESS SERVICES works with both public sector and commercial customers to find better ways of supporting their key activities. Whether we're designing retail outlets based on the way people shop or providing support to staff and pupils in new schools, our strength lies in our whole-life approach. By bringing together design, construction, project management and facilities management expertise with logistical, finance, supply chain management, HR and operational skills, we provide truly sustainable solutions
This client is a UK market leader in commercial building. Working with clients in the residential, retail, office, health, defence and secure sectors, we deliver through a variety of procurement routes, including traditional contracting, design and build and partnering. We have strong capabilities in specialist land remediation, delivering challenging and complex developments with exceptional sustainability and Health and Safety credentials
Professional delivery of sustainable, profitable growth. - Accountable to the Project/Senior Quantity Surveyor for commercial and contractual aspects of a Project as dictated by his responsibilities. - Perform a Commercial Function as directed by their line manager. - To provide Operations with commercial and contractual advice, determining risks, maximising opportunities. - To assist Supply Chain in the procurement of supplier’s/sub-contractors/consultants - Maintenance of robust and consistent change control processes on the project to ensure that appropriate changes/variations are identified and agreed with the Employer’s Representative. - Identification of risks and opportunities and evaluation of options. - Ensuring compliance with the Integrated Management Systems.
Contract Delivery: Responsible for assisting in the effective commercial practices within a project ensuring: - Information is available for timely and accurate applications for payment. - Adherence to Risk Management processes and procedures - Drafting of contractual correspondence - Preparation of accurate and prudent cost /value analysis - Budget preparation - Interim and Final account measurement – site measurement and drawing take off - Pricing and Rating variations and compensation events - Extension of Time - Interim payment and final account agreement of sub-contracts - Ensuring good quality and accurate records are kept - Maintenance of cost information. - Verification and agreement of Sundry Accounts - To assist in the production of Project Procurement Strategy Documentation - To assist in the production of Project Value Enhancement Plans Functional Management: To ensure the effective performance management and development of his/her direct reports, and the effective organisation of everyone working directly for them.
The Job Holder is subject to managerial control and the job is generally subject to practices and procedures that have clear precedents, or are covered by closely defined policies. The Job Holder may be 'part' qualified and will certainly possess some specialised skills that may have been gained through 'on the job' experience. The Job Holder's performance will have either a minimal impact on plc performance, or a very small impact on Business Group performance.
Accountable for the completion of standard or non-standard tasks, within the scope of the function -Delivers activities to support operational objectives for their role -Inputs to planning activities with horizons of typically up to 6 months -Makes decisions within parameters set by manager, using job/specialist experience -Interacts with client or users around specific work efforts and deliverables -Supports delivery of Health and Safety policy and standards -Supervises the activities of others to meet deadlines and quality standards taking account of impact outside area of responsibility -Focus of work on the completion of a set of related tasks for a particular section or service with the ability to accommodate new tasks
Financial Accountabilities -Identifies ways to reduce cost -Work within a given budget, usually without authorised spend of their own
People Accountabilities -Required to supervise a small team -Co-ordinates available resource to deal with the work in hand -Required to assist less experienced staff -Undertakes the performance reviews and provides training recommendations -Responsible for performance management issues and recommending disciplinary actions.
Knowledge & Applied Skills -Working knowledge of one functional area through job experience & training -Likely to have 2-5 years business experience, be a minimum part-qualified professional, and have a Certificate Level of Qualification as a minimum.
Behavioural Competencies Achieving and Doing Builds Relationships Business Awareness Contributing to continuous improvement Customer Focus Dealing with Change Delivery Through People Planning and Organising